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Case File

CVE-2015-7579

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.1 EPSS 2.59% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2016-02-16 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2015-7579
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.1
EPSS
2.59%

Original NVD Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the rails-html-sanitizer gem 1.0.2 for Ruby on Rails 4.2.x and 5.x allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML entity that is mishandled by the Rails::Html::FullSanitizer class.